Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 63 70
Rank change year-on-year -37 +7 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,715 1,940 3,579
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.81% 4.28% 3.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 4.64% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,261 976 2,702
10th Percentile £46,939 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% +13.08% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,638 41,796 87,970
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.33% 92.22% 82.12%
Number of salaries quoted 48,019 22,539 62,354
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,679 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.36% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 25 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -40 1,545 £75,000 +0.17% 416
UK excluding London -74 847 £65,000 -7.14% 297
Work from Home -28 762 £67,500 -3.57% 225
London -8 730 £85,000 +1.80% 196
North of England -47 334 £69,310 -4.40% 92
South East -26 229 £65,000 -7.14% 99
North West -53 184 £75,000 +3.45% 55
South West -69 88 £52,500 -23.39% 41
Midlands -67 86 £67,500 -3.57% 29
Yorkshire -27 78 £65,000 -13.18% 20
North East +11 72 £65,000 +2.36% 18
West Midlands -43 60 £80,000 +14.29% 20
East of England -17 46 £60,100 -3.84% 11
Wales -28 33 £70,000 +34.62% 8
Scotland -65 29 £60,000 -24.44% 15
East Midlands -70 25 £65,000 -3.70% 9
Northern Ireland -33 6 £62,500 +25.00% 7
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 2

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 27 (1.57%) Confluence
2 24 (1.40%) Apache Spark
3 14 (0.82%) Apache
3 14 (0.82%) CMS
3 14 (0.82%) IIS
4 10 (0.58%) JBoss
5 9 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.35%) WordPress
8 5 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.29%) Drupal
8 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.23%) Camunda
9 4 (0.23%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.23%) nginx
10 3 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.17%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.12%) DNN
11 2 (0.12%) Kentico
Applications
1 10 (0.58%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.35%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.12%) Shopify
7 1 (0.058%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 923 (53.82%) AWS
2 745 (43.44%) Azure
3 321 (18.72%) GCP
4 262 (15.28%) Serverless
5 184 (10.73%) GitHub
6 176 (10.26%) SaaS
7 148 (8.63%) Azure DevOps
8 127 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 107 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
9 107 (6.24%) Amazon S3
10 90 (5.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 77 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
11 77 (4.49%) Azure Service Bus
12 69 (4.02%) GitHub Copilot
13 68 (3.97%) Amazon EC2
14 61 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
14 61 (3.56%) Azure AKS
15 57 (3.32%) GitHub Actions
16 48 (2.80%) PaaS
17 45 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.73%) Broadband
2 24 (1.40%) Network Security
3 13 (0.76%) DMARC
4 12 (0.70%) MQTT
5 11 (0.64%) DNS
6 10 (0.58%) Internet
7 8 (0.47%) Firewall
7 8 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
7 8 (0.47%) VPN
8 7 (0.41%) AMQP
8 7 (0.41%) DHCP
9 6 (0.35%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (0.35%) HTTP
9 6 (0.35%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.29%) LTE
10 5 (0.29%) RFID
11 3 (0.17%) Modbus
12 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
12 2 (0.12%) SNMP
12 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (14.75%) MongoDB
2 200 (11.66%) NoSQL
3 194 (11.31%) PostgreSQL
4 126 (7.35%) Elasticsearch
5 119 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 104 (6.06%) MySQL
7 83 (4.84%) SQL Server
8 80 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 53 (3.09%) Redis
10 50 (2.92%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
12 28 (1.63%) Big Data
13 25 (1.46%) BigQuery
14 23 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.76%) Pinecone
16 9 (0.52%) Data Lake
16 9 (0.52%) Db2
17 8 (0.47%) DTS
18 7 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
19 6 (0.35%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 201 (11.72%) Git
2 164 (9.56%) GitLab
3 135 (7.87%) Jenkins
4 58 (3.38%) TeamCity
5 52 (3.03%) JIRA
6 48 (2.80%) JUnit
7 39 (2.27%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.87%) Cypress.io
9 31 (1.81%) Claude Code
9 31 (1.81%) Mockito
10 29 (1.69%) CircleCI
11 28 (1.63%) Maven
12 19 (1.11%) Selenium
13 17 (0.99%) SonarQube
13 17 (0.99%) Vite
14 15 (0.87%) JMeter
14 15 (0.87%) Postman
15 12 (0.70%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.52%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.52%) Spock
General
1 447 (26.06%) Finance
2 309 (18.02%) Social Skills
3 164 (9.56%) Banking
4 157 (9.15%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.89%) Retail
6 96 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
7 94 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 92 (5.36%) Law
9 54 (3.15%) Financial Institution
10 49 (2.86%) Back Office
11 32 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 27 (1.57%) Marketing
14 18 (1.05%) Aerospace
15 17 (0.99%) Advertising
16 16 (0.93%) Billing
17 15 (0.87%) Legal
18 13 (0.76%) Games
19 12 (0.70%) Front Office
20 11 (0.64%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 600 (34.99%) Developer
2 405 (23.62%) Senior
3 346 (20.17%) Software Engineer
4 246 (14.34%) Architect
4 246 (14.34%) Lead
5 154 (8.98%) .NET Developer
6 145 (8.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 137 (7.99%) Java Developer
8 125 (7.29%) Java Engineer
9 119 (6.94%) Senior Software Engineer
10 115 (6.71%) Senior Developer
11 95 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
12 87 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 78 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
14 72 (4.20%) Software Developer
15 62 (3.62%) Lead Developer
16 57 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
17 53 (3.09%) Senior Java Engineer
18 49 (2.86%) Java Software Engineer
19 44 (2.57%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 418 (24.37%) .NET
2 384 (22.39%) React
3 367 (21.40%) Node.js
4 289 (16.85%) Spring
5 270 (15.74%) RESTful
6 268 (15.63%) Spring Boot
7 231 (13.47%) REST
8 205 (11.95%) Kafka
9 177 (10.32%) ASP.NET
10 176 (10.26%) .NET Core
11 174 (10.15%) AngularJS
12 164 (9.56%) Vue
13 142 (8.28%) ASP.NET Core
14 86 (5.01%) ASP.NET Web API
14 86 (5.01%) HTML
15 85 (4.96%) .NET Framework
16 81 (4.72%) gRPC
17 79 (4.61%) CSS
18 76 (4.43%) Blazor
19 68 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 517 (30.15%) Cloud Native
2 295 (17.20%) Distributed Systems
3 119 (6.94%) Product Ownership
4 84 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
5 75 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.68%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.62%) Over-the-Top Content
9 37 (2.16%) Onboarding
10 34 (1.98%) Public Cloud
11 30 (1.75%) Algorithms
12 29 (1.69%) AI Agents
13 28 (1.63%) Data Structures
14 26 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
15 24 (1.40%) Distributed Architecture
15 24 (1.40%) e-Learning
16 23 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
16 23 (1.34%) Mobile App
17 22 (1.28%) Virtual Team
18 21 (1.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 101 (5.89%) Linux
2 44 (2.57%) Windows
3 20 (1.17%) Unix
4 7 (0.41%) CentOS
4 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.35%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.29%) Debian
6 5 (0.29%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.17%) AIX
7 3 (0.17%) Android
7 3 (0.17%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.058%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 869 (50.67%) CI/CD
2 754 (43.97%) Agile
3 628 (36.62%) DevOps
4 622 (36.27%) Software Engineering
5 480 (27.99%) Full-Stack Development
6 415 (24.20%) Containerisation
7 400 (23.32%) Mentoring
8 362 (21.11%) Test Automation
9 354 (20.64%) Event-Driven
10 338 (19.71%) AI
11 331 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
12 320 (18.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 296 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
14 233 (13.59%) Scrum
15 221 (12.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 208 (12.13%) Technical Leadership
17 204 (11.90%) TDD
18 195 (11.37%) Clean Code
19 194 (11.31%) Coaching
20 182 (10.61%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 567 (33.06%) Java
2 420 (24.49%) Python
3 418 (24.37%) SQL
4 413 (24.08%) C#
5 382 (22.27%) JavaScript
6 315 (18.37%) TypeScript
7 118 (6.88%) Go
8 49 (2.86%) Scala
9 44 (2.57%) PHP
10 42 (2.45%) Bash
10 42 (2.45%) C++
10 42 (2.45%) Ruby
11 25 (1.46%) C
12 24 (1.40%) Bicep
12 24 (1.40%) Rust
13 23 (1.34%) PowerShell
14 17 (0.99%) PL/SQL
15 16 (0.93%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.64%) Groovy
16 11 (0.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 206 (12.01%) Security Cleared
2 167 (9.74%) Degree
3 137 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 61 (3.56%) AWS Certification
6 34 (1.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.52%) CISSP
9 24 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.82%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.64%) CISM
14 10 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.47%) PhD
16 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.29%) AWS Certified Developer
17 5 (0.29%) ISACA
17 5 (0.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (7.00%) QA
2 58 (3.38%) Accessibility
3 40 (2.33%) GDPR
4 39 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.40%) NIST
5 24 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.34%) SOC 2
7 21 (1.22%) WCAG
8 17 (0.99%) NCSC
9 15 (0.87%) GRC
10 10 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.29%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
14 4 (0.23%) SEPA
15 3 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.17%) IFRS
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 20022
15 3 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 502 (29.27%) Docker
2 21 (1.22%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.23%) Firmware
4 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.058%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 537 (31.31%) Kubernetes
2 330 (19.24%) Terraform
3 94 (5.48%) Grafana
4 92 (5.36%) Ansible
5 53 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.34%) Argo
7 21 (1.22%) Kibana
8 15 (0.87%) Puppet
9 13 (0.76%) Cilium
10 12 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.23%) Packer
12 4 (0.23%) Podman
13 3 (0.17%) Rancher
14 2 (0.12%) Istio
14 2 (0.12%) MIIS
14 2 (0.12%) Nagios
14 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.058%) logstash
Vendors
1 243 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.20%) Google
3 55 (3.21%) Oracle
4 45 (2.62%) Typelevel
5 32 (1.87%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.40%) Splunk
7 22 (1.28%) Dynatrace
8 17 (0.99%) AppDynamics
9 16 (0.93%) IBM
10 14 (0.82%) Databricks
11 13 (0.76%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.76%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.70%) Adobe
13 10 (0.58%) Salesforce
13 10 (0.58%) SAP
14 9 (0.52%) OneLogin
14 9 (0.52%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.47%) Cisco
15 8 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
15 8 (0.47%) Guidewire